No, am not talking about her on the thumbnail. She won't pass doing the quirky when it comes to laying eggs, she's one of those that observes and does the normal, usual - in other words, a rather common way for a butterfly to lay its eggs. Yes, she may look pretty awkward here but that's my own doing, taking this pic this way.
Have you ever seen a butterfly lay it's egg? I have and you do now, too!
We all know that my first butterfly pet which I wrote about here was a cabbage butterfly. I named him; YELLOW, just like the color of his wings. I had him early April last year but I didn't see his mom lay him as an egg.
I had Yellow some time in late March and early April last year but my cabbage butterfly adventure, actually was - extended till late summer.
No, those butterflies on the pictures aren't a cabbage butterfly. They're something else and I'd like to know which sort that is.
Why? It's because it left me several eggs. Yes, these eggs and no, they don't look like these, nowadays.
This beauty has left me a souvenir and I got the whole process of her doing it on candid camera. The details about it, you will have to see for yourself on the video below.
Yes, the eggs are still where she left them atm - my baby Japanese plum tree. I wonder whether she chose it because it kind'a served as a camouflage for her or because her future gnawing creepers would have those leaves as a perfect fast food! I could only wish that the plum tree's plagued (by them darn aphids) leaves could hold their gnawing once these eggs hatch, that's if .. they hatch!
After Yellow, I had more cabbage butterflies which I collected as a day or a two - day old caterpillar last summer. I saw them being laid as eggs on my kale plants. It took a day for them to hatch, must be the heat or just their nature.
This beauty's eggs however, haven't. I was worried all winter through that they may freeze during the snowy days.
Until now, I have no idea whether they'd hatch or not so am asking anyone, more so, any butterfly expert in the house. Do you happen to know, which butterfly this is?
It did not only leave me those strange and no-quick hatching eggs but it also showed me some unusual way of what seems to be like - going through some labor like some pregnant women do when their water breaks and their babies are ready to come out!
Why is it the most unusual way for a butterfly to lay it's eggs? If it's considerably unusual, what is the usual way that any butterfly does when laying it's egg? Curious much already? Watch that vid and tell me what you think.
Did you get this far? Thank you for reading, not the many here do that anymore, they do what most butterflies do when laying their eggs!
